Enhanced Adaptive Brain-Computer Interface Approach for Intelligent Assistance to Disabled Peoples

Assistive devices for disabled people with the help of Brain-Computer Interaction(BCI)technology are becoming vital bio-medical engineering.People with physical disabilities need some assistive devices to perform their daily tasks.In these devices,higher latency factors need to be addressed appropriately.Therefore,the main goal of this research is to implement a real-time BCI architecture with minimum latency for command actuation.The proposed architecture is capable to communicate between different modules of the system by adopting an automotive,intelligent data processing and classification approach.Neuro-sky mind wave device has been used to transfer the data to our implemented server for command propulsion.Think-Net Convolutional Neural Network(TN-CNN)architecture has been proposed to recognize the brain signals and classify them into six primary mental states for data classification.Data collection and processing are the responsibility of the central integrated server for system load minimization.Testing of implemented architecture and deep learning model shows excellent results.The proposed system integrity level was the minimum data loss and the accurate commands processing mechanism.The training and testing results are 99%and 93%for custom model implementation based on TN-CNN.The proposed real-time architecture is capable of intelligent data processing unit with fewer errors,and it will benefit assistive devices working on the local server and cloud server.

Week Ahead Electricity Power and Price Forecasting Using Improved DenseNet-121 Method

In the Smart Grid(SG)residential environment,consumers change their power consumption routine according to the price and incentives announced by the utility,which causes the prices to deviate from the initial pattern.Thereby,electricity demand and price forecasting play a significant role and can help in terms of reliability and sustainability.Due to the massive amount of data,big data analytics for forecasting becomes a hot topic in the SG domain.In this paper,the changing and non-linearity of consumer consumption pattern complex data is taken as input.To minimize the computational cost and complexity of the data,the average of the feature engineering approaches includes:Recursive Feature Eliminator(RFE),Extreme Gradient Boosting(XGboost),Random Forest(RF),and are upgraded to extract the most relevant and significant features.To this end,we have proposed the DensetNet-121 network and Support Vector Machine(SVM)ensemble with Aquila Optimizer(AO)to ensure adaptability and handle the complexity of data in the classification.Further,the AO method helps to tune the parameters of DensNet(121 layers)and SVM,which achieves less training loss,computational time,minimized overfitting problems and more training/test accuracy.Performance evaluation metrics and statistical analysis validate the proposed model results are better than the benchmark schemes.Our proposed method has achieved a minimal value of the Mean Average Percentage Error(MAPE)rate i.e.,8%by DenseNet-AO and 6%by SVM-AO and the maximum accurateness rate of 92%and 95%,respectively.

Energy Theft Identification Using Adaboost Ensembler in the Smart Grids

One of the major concerns for the utilities in the Smart Grid(SG)is electricity theft.With the implementation of smart meters,the frequency of energy usage and data collection from smart homes has increased,which makes it possible for advanced data analysis that was not previously possible.For this purpose,we have taken historical data of energy thieves and normal users.To avoid imbalance observation,biased estimates,we applied the interpolation method.Furthermore,the data unbalancing issue is resolved in this paper by Nearmiss undersampling technique and makes the data suitable for further processing.By proposing an improved version of Zeiler and Fergus Net(ZFNet)as a feature extraction approach,we had able to reduce the model’s time complexity.To minimize the overfitting issues,increase the training accuracy and reduce the training loss,we have proposed an enhanced method by merging Adaptive Boosting(AdaBoost)classifier with Coronavirus Herd Immunity Optimizer(CHIO)and Forensic based Investigation Optimizer(FBIO).In terms of low computational complexity,minimized over-fitting problems on a large quantity of data,reduced training time and training loss and increased training accuracy,our model outperforms the benchmark scheme.Our proposed algorithms Ada-CHIO andAda-FBIO,have the low MeanAverage Percentage Error(MAPE)value of error,i.e.,6.8%and 9.5%,respectively.Furthermore,due to the stability of our model our proposed algorithms Ada-CHIO and Ada-FBIO have achieved the accuracy of 93%and 90%.Statistical analysis shows that the hypothesis we proved using statistics is authentic for the proposed technique against benchmark algorithms,which also depicts the superiority of our proposed techniques.

A Hybrid Feature Selection Framework for Predicting Students Performance

Student performance prediction helps the educational stakeholders to take proactive decisions and make interventions,for the improvement of quality of education and to meet the dynamic needs of society.The selection of features for student’s performance prediction not only plays significant role in increasing prediction accuracy,but also helps in building the strategic plans for the improvement of students’academic performance.There are different feature selection algorithms for predicting the performance of students,however the studies reported in the literature claim that there are different pros and cons of existing feature selection algorithms in selection of optimal features.In this paper,a hybrid feature selection framework(using feature-fusion)is designed to identify the significant features and associated features with target class,to predict the performance of students.The main goal of the proposed hybrid feature selection is not only to improve the prediction accuracy,but also to identify optimal features for building productive strategies for the improvement in students’academic performance.The key difference between proposed hybrid feature selection framework and existing hybrid feature selection framework,is two level feature fusion technique,with the utilization of cosine-based fusion.Whereas,according to the results reported in existing literature,cosine similarity is considered as the best similarity measure among existing similarity measures.The proposed hybrid feature selection is validated on four benchmark datasets with variations in number of features and number of instances.The validated results confirm that the proposed hybrid feature selection framework performs better than the existing hybrid feature selection framework,existing feature selection algorithms in terms of accuracy,f-measure,recall,and precision.Results reported in presented paper show that the proposed approach gives more than 90%accuracy on benchmark dataset that is better than the results of existing approach.

Human Emotions Classification Using EEG via Audiovisual Stimuli and AI

Electroencephalogram(EEG)is a medical imaging technology that can measure the electrical activity of the scalp produced by the brain,measured and recorded chronologically the surface of the scalp from the brain.The recorded signals from the brain are rich with useful information.The inference of this useful information is a challenging task.This paper aims to process the EEG signals for the recognition of human emotions specifically happiness,anger,fear,sadness,and surprise in response to audiovisual stimuli.The EEG signals are recorded by placing neurosky mindwave headset on the subject’s scalp,in response to audiovisual stimuli for the mentioned emotions.Using a bandpass filter with a bandwidth of 1-100 Hz,recorded raw EEG signals are preprocessed.The preprocessed signals then further analyzed and twelve selected features in different domains are extracted.The Random forest(RF)and multilayer perceptron(MLP)algorithms are then used for the classification of the emotions through extracted features.The proposed audiovisual stimuli based EEG emotion classification system shows an average classification accuracy of 80%and 88%usingMLP and RF classifiers respectively on hybrid features for experimental signals of different subjects.The proposed model outperforms in terms of cost and accuracy.

Heart Disease Risk Prediction Expending of Classification Algorithms

Heart disease prognosis(HDP)is a difficult undertaking that requires knowledge and expertise to predict early on.Heart failure is on the rise as a result of today’s lifestyle.The healthcare business generates a vast volume of patient records,which are challenging to manage manually.When it comes to data mining and machine learning,having a huge volume of data is crucial for getting meaningful information.Several methods for predictingHDhave been used by researchers over the last few decades,but the fundamental concern remains the uncertainty factor in the output data,aswell as the need to decrease the error rate and enhance the accuracy of HDP assessment measures.However,in order to discover the optimal HDP solution,this study compares multiple classification algorithms utilizing two separate heart disease datasets from the Kaggle repository and the University of California,Irvine(UCI)machine learning repository.In a comparative analysis,Mean Absolute Error(MAE),Relative Absolute Error(RAE),precision,recall,fmeasure,and accuracy are used to evaluate Linear Regression(LR),Decision Tree(J48),Naive Bayes(NB),Artificial Neural Network(ANN),Simple Cart(SC),Bagging,Decision Stump(DS),AdaBoost,Rep Tree(REPT),and Support Vector Machine(SVM).Overall,the SVM classifier surpasses other classifiers in terms of increasing accuracy and decreasing error rate,with RAE of 33.2631 andMAEof 0.165,the precision of 0.841,recall of 0.835,f-measure of 0.833,and accuracy of 83.49 percent for the dataset gathered from UCI.The SC improves accuracy and reduces the error rate for the Kaggle dataset,which is 3.30%for RAE,0.016 percent for MAE,0.984%for precision,0.984 percent for recall,0.984 percent for f-measure,and 98.44%for accuracy.